JPH0620084A - Slip printer of bar code read system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To automatically skip printing in a miswrite position without key operation or the like at the time of entering erroneous contents in a slip form. CONSTITUTION:After storing bar code information read by a bar code reader 13 in a printing buffer 18a, a CPU 11 gives it to a receipt printing part 17 to print out information on a receipt with a row as the unit. A mark detecting sensor 16 detects whether a correction mark indicating that entered contents are cancelled or not with respect to each row of the receipt. If the correction mark is added to a row, the CPU 11 skips printing in this row.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a bar code reading type slip printing machine for reading bar code information attached to a mail item and printing the bar code information on a receipt for a mail item or the like.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, when a customer attaches a bar code label previously distributed to a customer in order to rationalize the window operation at a post office and submits it by attaching it to a mail item, the bar code information is optically transmitted from the bar code label. 2. Description of the Related Art There is known a bar code reading type slip printing machine which reads a document and prints it out on a receipt for mail. Here, the mail receipt is constructed as shown in FIG. 5, and in this receipt, the recipient name column in which the recipient name corresponding to each line is written by hand, the bar code read by the bar code reader It has an underwriting number column in which an underwriting number as information is printed. By the way, if the contents of the recipient's name field in one line are incorrect, the correct recipient's name is entered in the next line.

[0003]

If there is a line on the postal receipt that is not properly written, the paper is fed by one line and the printing on that line is skipped. Since the operation is required, the operator is burdened by that much, and if the paper feed operation is forgotten, the correspondence between the recipient name field and the underwriting number field is deviated. An object of the present invention is to make it possible to automatically skip printing on a defectively written portion without performing a key operation or the like when an incorrect content is written on a slip sheet.

[0004]

The means of the present invention are as follows. The bar code reading means 1 (see the functional block diagram of FIG. 1, the same applies hereinafter) is a bar code reader for reading bar code information attached to a mail piece. The printing means 2 sequentially prints the bar code information read by the bar code reading means 1 on a slip sheet to issue, for example, a registered mail receipt. The mark detection means 3 is, for example, an optical mark detection sensor that detects whether or not a correction mark indicating cancellation of the entered content is added to each area of the slip sheet. The correction mark is added by a pencil or the like, and the mark detecting means 3 detects the correction mark by, for example, irradiating the portion where the correction mark is added with light and the intensity of the reflected light. When the mark detection unit 3 detects a correction mark, the print control unit 4 skips printing in the corresponding area to which the correction mark is added.

[0005]

The operation of the means of the present invention is as follows. Now, it is assumed that a slip sheet such as a postal receipt is provided with a correction column corresponding to each line, for adding a correction mark indicating cancellation of the entered content. If the recipient's name or the like is miswritten, a correction mark is added in the correction column corresponding to that line. In this state, when a print command is given, the barcode information previously read from the mail by the barcode reading means 1 is printed by the printing means 2.
Is printed on each line of the slip paper by
The mark detecting means 3 detects whether or not a correction mark indicating cancellation of the entered content is added to each line of the slip paper. As a result, when the correction mark is detected, the print control unit 4 skips printing on the corresponding line to which the correction mark is added. Therefore, when the wrong contents are entered on the slip sheet, the printing at the defective portion can be automatically skipped without performing a key operation or the like.

[0006]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment will be described below with reference to FIGS. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the bar code reading type slip printing machine. The CPU 11 controls the entire operation of the barcode reading slip printing machine according to various programs in the ROM 12, and the CPU 11 has a barcode reader 13 and a keyboard 1 as its peripheral devices.
4, a display unit 15, a mark detection sensor 16, and a receipt printing unit 17 are connected to control input / output operations of them.

The bar code reader 13 optically scans a bar code label attached to a mail piece to optically read bar code information. The bar code information read by the bar code reader 13 is sequentially transferred to a print buffer 18a in the RAM 18. Written. The print buffer 18a is for sequentially storing and holding the data input from the keyboard 14 and the bar code information read by the bar code reader 13 as print data from the beginning thereof.
When the print command is input from 4, the print data is sequentially read from the print buffer 18a, given to the receipt printing unit 17, and printed on the receipt paper set in the receipt printing unit 17. In this case, the CPU 11 determines whether to print data on a line-by-line basis or skip data printing based on the detection result of the mark detection sensor 16, and when skipping printing, paper feed for one line is performed. In addition,
The print pointer 18b in the RAM 18 is the print buffer 18
It is a pointer for addressing the contents of a for each line.

The mark detection sensor 16 is an optical sensor for optically detecting whether or not a correction mark provided to correspond to each line of the receipt has a correction mark indicating cancellation of the entered contents in the line. Then, the correction mark is detected based on the intensity of the reflected light when the receipt is illuminated with light.

Here, the receipt of this embodiment is constructed as shown in FIG. 4, and each line of the receipt is provided with a correction column in addition to the recipient name column, the underwriting number column ... This correction column is added with a correction mark indicating cancellation of the contents written in the corresponding recipient name column, and the correction mark is a black mark filled or filled with, for example, a pencil.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. Now, the bar code information read by the bar code reader 13 and the data input from the keyboard 14 are fetched by the CPU 11 as print data and then sequentially stored and held in the print buffer 18a from the first line. On the other hand, if the recipient's name is written by hand in the recipient's name field on the receipt, and if the entry is incorrect, a correction mark will be added to the correction field corresponding to that line. . Here, FIG. 4 shows a case where the recipient's name on the 4th line is entered incorrectly, and a double horizontal line is drawn on the part to clearly indicate that the part is a mistake and the correction on the 4th line is made. The case where a correction mark is added to the column is shown.

When a print command is input from the keyboard 14, the CPU 11 executes a receipt print process according to the flowchart of FIG. First, the keyboard 14
In the state where the paper is set in, the CPU 11 feeds the paper to the print position of the first line (step S1). Next, the print pointer 18b is set to the initial value "1" (step S2). When such initialization processing is completed, the detection result of the mark detection sensor 16 is fetched, and it is checked whether or not a correction mark is added to the correction column on the first line of the receipt (step S).
3). Here, when no correction mark is detected, the first line of the print buffer 18a is addressed by the print pointer 18b, the print data is read from the designated area (step S4), and the print data is sent to the receipt printing unit 17 as well. To print out the first line of the receipt (step S5).

When the data for one line is printed in this way, the paper is fed for one line (step S6) and "1" is added to the value of the print pointer 18b to update the pointer value. (Step S7). In this case, the paper is set at the position of the second line, and the value of the print pointer 18b is updated to "2". Next, it is checked whether the receipt has been fed to the last line (step S8). Here, taking the receipt shown in FIG. 4 as an example, the last line is the eighth line, so
In step S8, it is checked whether or not the receipt has been fed to the 8th line by referring to the value of a counter (not shown) that counts the number of times of feeding. If the number of paper feeds is less than "8", the process advances to the next step S9 to check whether or not there is unprinted data in the print buffer 18a, and if there is, the process returns to step S3.

Here, as shown in FIG. 4, if the correction mark is not added to the second line of the receipt, the data of the second line is read from the print buffer 18a and is printed out on the second line of the receipt. (Steps S4 and S5). And 1
The paper for the line is fed to set the paper to the position of the third line (step S6), and the value of the print pointer 18b is updated to "3" (step S7). Thereafter, the process returns from steps S8 and S9 to step S3, but since the correction mark is not added to the third line, the same operation is repeated thereafter (steps S3 to S9).

When the printing of the third line is completed and the sheet is set at the position of the fourth line, the mark detection sensor 16 detects the presence of the correction mark. Then, step S1
After proceeding to 0 and feeding the paper by one line, step S3
Return to. When the correction mark added to the fourth line is detected, the printing of the fourth line is skipped and the paper is fed to the position of the fifth line. In this case, the correction mark is added to the fifth line. Since it has not been added, the process proceeds to step S4. Since the value of the print pointer 18b remains "4", the data of the fourth line is read from the print buffer 18a and is printed out on the fifth line of the receipt (step S5). That is,
The data in the 4th row is the next 5 with no correction mark added.
It will be printed out on the line.

After that, the paper is fed by one line and the paper becomes 6
The print pointer 18b is set to the position of the line "5".
(Steps S6 and S7), the print buffer 18 is updated by repeating the print processing described above.
The data in a will be printed out at positions shifted by one line. As a result of such operations being repeated,
When the number of times the paper is fed reaches the last line "8" of the paper, this is detected in step S8 and step S1
In step 3, it is checked whether any unprinted data remains in the print buffer 18a. Here, if the printing is skipped by the correction mark, the printing is moved to the next line. Therefore, even if the paper is fed to the last line, the print buffer 18a
In some cases, unprinted data may remain. In such a case, in order to print out the unprinted data on the next receipt, first, as preprocessing, all other printed data except the unprinted data in the print buffer 18a are cleared (step S14), and then The unprinted data in the print buffer 18a is shifted to the first line (step S15), and the paper is discharged (step S12). On the other hand, if there is no unprinted data, the process proceeds to step S11 and the print buffer 18a
After clearing all the contents of, the paper is discharged (step S12). On the other hand, if there is no unprinted data in the print buffer 18a even if the number of paper feeds has not reached the last line of the paper, all the contents of the print buffer 18a are cleared (step S11), and the paper is discharged (step S11). S1
2).

In the above embodiment, the correction mark is added to the dedicated correction field provided on the receipt. However, even if a part where the writing is miswritten is drawn as a correction mark by drawing several horizontal lines. Of course, the position where the correction mark is added and the shape thereof are arbitrary. Further, in the above embodiment, the printing in the row direction is skipped with the detection of the correction mark, but the printing in the column direction may be skipped. Here, in the above-described embodiment, the paper feed is performed in order to skip the printing for one line, but when the printing is skipped in the column direction, the paper feeding is unnecessary.

[0017]

As described above, according to the present invention, when incorrect contents are entered on the slip sheet, the printing on the defective portion can be automatically skipped without key operation or the like. The printed contents do not deviate from each other, and the slip printing can be accurately performed, and the slip printing can be efficiently performed without imposing a burden on the operator.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a bar code reading type slip printing machine according to the embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a receipt printing process.

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a print example of a registered mail receipt.

FIG. 5 is a view showing a conventional mail receipt.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 CPU 12 ROM 16 Mark detection sensor 17 Receipt certificate print section 18a Print buffer 18b Print pointer

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A bar code comprising: bar code reading means for reading bar code information attached to a mail piece; and printing means for sequentially printing the bar code information read by the bar code reading means on a slip sheet. In a read-type slip printing machine, a mark detection unit that detects whether or not a correction mark indicating cancellation of the entered content is added to each area of the slip sheet, and when the correction mark is detected by this mark detection unit And a print control means for skipping printing on the corresponding area to which the correction mark is added, and a bar code reading type slip printing machine.